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| Syd |
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Quote: As I was out walking the streets of Las Vegas
As I was out walking Las Vegas one day,
I met a young lady all dressed in white satin,
All dressed in white satin and as sweet as the May.
"I see by your unicorn you are a virgin
I know it for sure by the horn on its head."
"Alas," she said, "Its horn is so mighty
I fear I'm a virgin until I am dead."
I forget the rest, except it takes the obvious turn. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 7:04 pm |
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| Rod |
| Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 7:18 pm |
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Marj;
"Rob"? |
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A long time ago, but somehow in the future...It is a period of civil war and renegade paragraphs floating through space. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 7:49 pm |
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yambu: That's cool, but I still can't seee my house from there.
The Washington Monument really stands out there, and you can see the gridmarks in one of the stadiums in Washington. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 8:28 pm |
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| Those satellite photos are from Keyhole, Inc., which Google recently purchased. For a really good time, go to http://www.keyhole.com and download their demo software. It has full screen satellite views, and much better zooming and tilting features than Google Maps. The tilting is amazing. I can "fly" over the Marin Headlands north of the Golden Gate, rotate my view 360 degrees, descend into valleys, follow hiking trails and bike paths. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 8:32 pm |
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| Back to Google Maps. You're looking at a local map (like mapquest, only much better. Type in "pizza", and it will locate all pizza outlets in that map view. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 8:50 pm |
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| Tried it again. This time I found my house, and the building I work in. Couldn't tell if the cat was in the back yard when the picture was taken. It looks like 3-9 months ago since it has the new Journalism building, but no trace of the dorms which are under construction. |
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| burritoboy |
| Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 8:59 pm |
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"hey burrito,
take some time to learn how to use the quote function. Yer posts are confusing as hell."
First, I gotta post. Then, I gotta learn somethinks. Whattapeoples gonna ask me next for? |
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| Rod |
| Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 9:33 pm |
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| As a minor post-script to our Watergate/Government scandals conversations, last night, eager for a movie good to listen to I put on All The President's Men, and a new realisation came to me. Nixon and his cronies got it in the neck for taking the assassinate-the-enemy's-reputations approach too far, but in the end their approach has become the mandatory right-wing strategy. Nixon's career died so that his legacy might take strong root. |
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| lshap |
| Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 9:49 pm |
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| Hey Burritoboy, paint my house. |
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| lshap |
| Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 9:53 pm |
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Quote: Nixon's career died so that his legacy might take strong root.
Nixon in politics, Ben Johnson in sports, Napster in technology -- all martyrs for a greater bad.[/quote] |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 10:00 pm |
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| No admistration is about to burglarize the opposition, so there is a difference. There is more accountability post-Watergate, due to the Wash Post showing that investigative reporting with honest support from the owner and editor down can make money and reputation. I'm no journalist, but I thought the film made this point well. It's still a fav of mine. |
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| Rod |
| Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 10:13 pm |
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[quote="lshap"]Quote: -- all martyrs for a greater bad.
Well put. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 12:46 am |
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Syd wrote: Tried it again. This time I found my house, and the building I work in.... |
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| censored-03 |
| Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 1:14 am |
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| mo and Marc, TEARS OF THE BLACK TIGER is queued up. Thanks for the prompt. |
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